Hot weather is a narrative device as old as time, but scenes of the stickiest season are taking on ominous new undertones in modern fiction. Lauren Bravo explores how literature’s love affair with the long, hot summer is changing.

Keen on a sandy escape? We've rounded up some of the best moments in literature to transport you right there.

Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan visits the Penguin studio to talk about his new novel Machines Like Me – set in an alternate 1980s in which synthetic humans are on sale.

As a snapshot of 2019, our list of the most searched for and clicked on books on penguin.co.uk tells its own story.

To mark his new satirical novella The Cockroach, British author Ian McEwan shares five books that have shaped his life, from a childhood spent in North Africa to his first flushes of literary fame to Freud, whose 'ghost stalked my earliest stories'.

The author to follow Machines Like Me with a ‘political satire in the old tradition’ this month.

From alternative realities to machine learning, Ian McEwan discusses the questions raised in Machines Like Me and how the dytopian novel is really about the present.

VINTAGE's foremost storyteller returns with new novel published by Jonathan Cape on 18 April 2019.

Here's five things to know about Machines Like Me, the new novel by Ian McEwan.

In celebration of Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday this month, archive director Stephen Enniss unearths 4 treasures from the author’s literary archive that give unique insights into his extraordinary career.

Author Ian McEwan and star Billy Howle talk to film critic Rhianna Dhillon about adapting the bestselling novel to the big screen.

The latest novel from Ian McEwan is a classic tale of murder and deceit, told from a perspective like no other – as you'll discover from reading the opening below

Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers

Atonement's protagonist is one of McEwan's best known characters - but also, the author tells us, one of the most misunderstood

Ian McEwan and Martin Amis are two old friends - who also happen to be literary superstars.